ANNISTON, Alabama -- The Anniston Star is reporting that Joshua Russell, found guilty of capital murder in the 2011 fatal shooting of Anniston police officer Justin Sollohub, has been sentenced to death.

Russell was accused of shooting Sollohub during a foot chase near 19th
Street and Moore Avenue in Anniston on Aug. 24, 2011. Russell was arrested
later that day after a search of the neighborhood, while Sollohub died in a Birmingham hospital a day later.

Russell was tried in September in Opelika, after the venue was moved because of pre-trial publicity.

Today, the Anniston Police Department posted this tweet:

Please keep Sollo's family and friends, both blood and blue, in your thoughts and prayers today. Judge Howell... http://t.co/XPjjEZxzQ0